Recursive Summarization Unlocks Effective LLM Integration in Healthcare
Your patient has 247 pages of medical records spanning 8 years. Two ER visits, three specialists, ongoing knee osteoarthritis, recent ACL reconstruction. How do you create a coherent summary that preserves critical information while making it digestible for both clinicians and AI systems?
The answer isn't just summarization, it's recursive summarization. And the secret isn't just what you summarize, but what you choose to preserve at each level of abstraction.